The two types of saturation alleviation are

• A. The two types are the number of tracks is too great and there are too many radar actions
• B. There is only one type
• C. The types are rate and amplitude
• D. They are irrelevant to saturation alleviation

Answer: (A)

Saturation alleviation is about preventing overload in a radar/track system by controlling workload. There are two ways overload can occur: when the number of tracks becomes too great, and when there are too many radar actions happening. If the track count is excessive, the system can struggle to manage and display all targets, so you reduce load by aggregating, prioritizing, or pruning less critical tracks. If radar actions flood the system, the rapid updates can overwhelm processing, so you throttle actions or batch updates to keep the data flow within what the processor can handle. Other options don’t fit because there isn’t just one type of saturation issue here, and saturation isn’t about signal rate or amplitude in this context; it’s about limiting workload to avoid system overload.